# Snapshots: are type "fs" compatible with type "s3"?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-are-type-fs-compatible-with-type-s3/74655
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 10, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-are-type-fs-compatible-with-type-s3/74655 "2017-02-10T13:22:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@foobarbaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/foobarbaz)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-are-type-fs-compatible-with-type-s3/74655/1 "2017-02-10T13:22:28Z")
Is it possible to do a snapshot type "fs" (locally), sync the local snapshot location to an s3 bucket, and then from an AWS elasticsearch instance run a restore using the s3 bucket containing the snapshot generated with type "fs"?
Know I could directly sync the snapshot to "s3" with a local install of repository-s3 plugin ; however find this to be incredibly slow with little to no feedback as to what is happening. Prefer the speed of a local snapshot (local is source of truth) and then to see the progress of s3 syncing via the aws-cli.
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### Author:  [@ywelsch](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ywelsch)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-are-type-fs-compatible-with-type-s3/74655/2 "2017-02-10T16:19:39Z")
Both "fs" and "s3" _currently_ use the same directory layout, so it should be possible.
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### Author:  [@foobarbaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/foobarbaz)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-are-type-fs-compatible-with-type-s3/74655/3 "2017-02-11T08:16:02Z")
Awesome! Thanks for the insight, I'll give it a go.
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### Author:  [@foobarbaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/foobarbaz)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-are-type-fs-compatible-with-type-s3/74655/4 "2017-02-28T03:17:13Z")
This worked great, thanks again!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snapshots-are-type-fs-compatible-with-type-s3/74655/5 "2017-03-28T03:17:28Z")
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